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Announcements
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Highlights
GVSU students build "green" cluster
ACM/IEEE Supercomputing recently awarded electronic components to GVSU's School of Computing and
Inormation Systems for construction of a cluster computer. As a special program associated with GVSU's
recent summer workshop, several undergraduate students (Andrew Bellenir, Aaron Lindstrom, and Brian Krause,
with assistance from Brian Demers) spent a week building "Grunwulf". It incorporates 6 motherboards
featuring the Intel Atom, a new extremely energy-efficient microprocessor. The system is currently undergoing
power and performance testing and will be used in Fall courses such as CS 380 Parallel Algorithms and
CS 677 High-Performance Computing.
GVSU hosts Supercomputing 2008 Summer Workshop
ACM/IEEE Supercomputing (SC) is the premier International Conference for High Performance Computing.
The SC08 Education Program is designed to work with undergraduate faculty and students to integrate
computational science and high performance computing technologies highlighted through the SC Conference
into the preparation of future scientists, technologists, engineers, mathematicians and teachers.
The SC08 Education initiative consists of an intensive program during the conference in Austin, as well
as a series of summer workshops preceding the conference.
From July 6-12, GVSU's School of Computing & Information Systems faculty members Greg Wolffe and Christian Trefftz,
supported by the Padnos College of Engineering & Computing, hosted one of 12 Supercomputing 2008 Summer
Workshops, "High-Performance Computing applied to Science Education". Twenty-one participants from across the
US and around the world attended the workshop in the new Kennedy Hall on Grand Valley's Pew Campus.
CIS Outstanding Masters Student
Congratulations to CIS Masters student Igor Majdandzic, primary author of the paper "High-Performance Computation of Voronoi Diagrams using a Graphics Processing Unit", which was accepted for publication in the 2008 IEEE Electro/Information Technology conference. In acknowledgment of the quality of his graduate work, Majdandzic recently received Grand Valley State's 2008 Graduate Dean's Citation for Outstanding Masters Student and also for Outstanding Masters Project. His co-advisors on his Masters project and co-authors on the IEEE paper are faculty members Dr. Christian Trefftz and Dr. Greg Wolffe.
WOW! Dr. Scott Grissom has been awarded
2008 Michigan Professor of the Year AND
the 2008 Glenn A. Niemeyer Outstanding Faculty Award!
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Welcome from the Director
Welcome to the School of Computing and Information Systems at Grand Valley State University.
I am pleased you stopped by to visit us on the web. On this site you can learn about our undergraduate
majors: Computer Science and Information Systems,
several minors, and two graduate programs:
Computer Information Systems and Medical & BioInformatics.
You can also find information on our courses,
what is happening with our students, and also with our faculty. It is our hope that you can discover the answers to
(1) why Grand Valley is the best university to attend, (2) why you should get a degree in computing, and (3) which
major is right for you.
By offering both a Computer Science and an Information Systems degree in the same program, sharing the same
faculty and facilities, students benefit from an applied practical CS degree and a technical IS degree.
Students receive more individual attention in our programs because we offer smaller classes.
Our faculty have a
diverse set of expertise, are excellent teachers, and are active in their respective fields. The faculty
and staff are committed to quality instruction while integrating research developments in computing in both
the undergraduate and graduate curriculum. We have state-of-the-art computing facilities, including a
nationally recognized networking and data communication teaching laboratory,
a Linux lab, an architecture lab, and student research project rooms dedicated for
undergraduate student/faculty research. Students
learn in an environment that emphasizes the practical uses of computing and information technology through
courses that are applicable to business today and augmented through involvement in internships.
Excellent job and career opportunities exist for our graduates as the need for these skills remains in high
demand. As a result, our industrial partners, the School of CIS's Advisory Board, strongly support the curricula,
recruit our graduates, and work with our faculty.
Enjoy your visit to our website and please contact us if you have any questions.
For further information on our various programs and opportunities, please contact:
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